Forsake Quotes

• If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

  Dorothy Kelley Patterson

  Men, Please, Ifs

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  How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

  Jonathan Edwards

  Forever, Neglect, Ifs

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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• People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, People, Different

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• Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Men, Idols

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• If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

  Matthew Simpson

  Jesus, Joy, Earth

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Satan's aim is to destroy our joy and trust and delight in God, and to make God look worthless in the world's eyes. Everytime someone forsakes God for the world, gets angry at God when part of the world is taken away from them, they highlight the world as valuable... and everytime someone stays with God, when the world is taken away, and praises God, they highlight the value and glory of God.

  John Piper

  Faith, Religious, Taken

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• A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Real, Order

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• True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Indifference, Foe

  Jonathan Edwards, James Macintosh Houston (2004). “Faith Beyond Feelings: Discerning the Heart of True Spirituality”, p.171, David C Cook

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• My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Sep 09, 2011

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• When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.

  Joel Houston

  Pain, Children, Hands

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• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Age, World

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• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Sins Not, Forsaken

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• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit
  And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd:
  'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit:
  And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d.
  He that bewails and not forsakes them too;
  Confesses rather what he means to do.

  Francis Quarles

  Mean, Cry, Sin

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• A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Generations

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• Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Love Is, Fleeting

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• Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Pursue, Inhibitions

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• Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

  Harry Browne

  War, Firsts, Truth Is

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• Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Friendship, Suffering

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1596, Moody Publishers

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• The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace in times of difficult circumstances, to cause all circumstances to work together for our good, and finally to bring us safely home to glory. Not one of those promises is dependent upon our performance. They are all dependent on the grace of God given to us through Jesus Christ.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Home, Giving

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• Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Flower, Tree

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• Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Needs, May, Lord

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